Age Quotes

We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet.

Biological age is the key component of the aging process.

Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to.

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

I am much beholden to old age, which has increased my eagerness for conversation in proportion as it has lessened my appetites of hunger and thirst.

This is, i think, very much the Age of Anxiety, the age of the neurosis, because along with so much that weighs on our minds there is perhaps even more that grates on our nerves.

An age is best revealed by its artists of the second rank.

What do we have in life, really? If we're lucky we get to a certain age, and we have each other. We have the food we like. We have our crazy little rituals. And we have each other.

I always knew I'd be a millionaire by age thirty-two. In fact, I am going to be the richest black woman in America.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

The fact of the matter is fame predates even the age of cinema.

In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

I was very driven to act from a very young age, and my parents were not only tolerant of that drive but also encouraging.

Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

Is that a birthday? 'tis, alas! too clear; 'Tis but the funeral of the former year.

This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.

In the age of revolution you have to be able to imagine revolutionary alternatives to the status quo. If you can't, you'll be relegated to the swollen ranks of keyboard-pounding automatons.

How many persons fancy they have experience simply because they have grown old!

It is so comic to hear oneself called old, even at ninety I suppose!

If a young man at the age of twenty-three can write a symphony like that, in five years he will be ready to commit murder.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skills.

Every day in every way, I am increasing my mental and physical capacity. I am reversing my biological age.

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.

Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.

These are the effects of doting age,--vain doubts and idle cares and over caution.

God himself preserved the Bible, and brought it down through the ages.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

You have the power to reverse your age.

He was living in an age much more dangerous, more painful, much more on the edge than our own particular age.

Where there is age there is evolution, where there is life there is growth.

It all would have been much better if individuals saved for their own old age.

Every period of life has its peculiar prejudices; whoever saw old age, that did not applaud the past, and condemn the present times?

Donald O'Connor was in the film [ 'Singin' in the Rain' ] as well, and he was only 27 years old. So we were closer in age, and had more fun together on the set. Gene was more my teacher and mentor.

Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

Laughter is pleasant, but the exertion at my age is too much for me.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse; always harder.

I always figured I'd still be playing at this age.

My age makes all my wrinkles and gray hair make sense.